A Hawke's Bay man who served all of a two year and eight month jail sentence for sex offending is back in jail for at least the third time for breaching conditions of an extended supervision order.
Appearing in Napier District Court this week via audio-visual link from prison, Stephen George Rainham, 44, was sentenced to a further 12 months' jail for offences involving using a cellphone in breach of conditions which bar him from having unsupervised access to the internet.
First sentenced in November 2009 for sexual grooming and for unlawful sexual connection with a young teenaged girl, Rainham was released in November 2011 but was soon recalled from parole because of breaches of his release conditions.
In July 2012 he was sentenced to nine months' jail for breaching the order, he was sentenced to more jail in September 2014, and after offending while on release with electronic monitoring he was in November 2014 sentenced to another six months for more breaches.
The extended supervision order was put in place for five years in 2011 and was later renewed for another five years. Such orders were introduced with the Parole Act 2002 to monitor and manage higher-risk sex offenders after release from jail.
